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With regard to architecture, I like confronting myself with different themes,
dimensions and contexts, ranging from minimal interventions in the Alps to challenging
urban competitions such as for the headquarters of the Bâloise Group or the Swiss Federal Railways.
Among my favourite projects

Recompositions in Sceru and Giumello, Malvaglia Valley

[…] it was a mass of stone, which any unknowing observer would have imagined was a heap of stone cast up
by the permafrost. Two assistants, who removed the stones in three hours of enthusiastic work, uncovered some
kind of centre and then a rectangular shape, eventually revealing the foundations of a farmhouse.
Filled up with stones, they had taken on the shape of a grave. The picture which Loos supplies
for his definition of architecture ("Someone was buried here, That is architecture.") focuses on
the work of both assistants: here on the Sceru Alp they have buried a house.
Let us imagine that these two continue tirelessly piling up stones to form graves which tell us about houses,
barns and roads. That would be a beautiful way of confirming the rural exodus, wouldn’t it?
(from “New alpine architecture, Architecture prize 2006”)

Pizzada, Blenio Valley

New functions like sleeping, cooking, eating and resting are introduced into a mountain
cowshed fallen into disuse. These functions, often considered partially incompatible in
the same space, coexist around a fitted piece of furniture.

Sceru, Malvaglia Valley

A farmstead with dry stone walling has its eaves removed and has the woodwork normally
visible between the sides walls and the roof covered.
The resulting massive character contrasts sharply with the original tectonic design.

Courtyard house in Ligaino

A building consisting of parts built at different times set in a rural complex with a courtyard,
takes on a harmonious contemporary character. The reconstruction process begins with the demolition
of damaged parts like the wooden floors and woodwork. New floors are placed between existing load-bearing
walls at different levels so as to permit direct horizontal and vertical movement,
from one room to another, through apertures in the walls. The division into three similar
floors in the original building is substituted by a set of independent rooms each placed at
a specific level.

Apartment in Ligaino

On the top floor of a traditional house in the historic centre a cross shaped piece
of furniture structures in four equivalent sectors the unitary space defined
by the perimeter walls.

House in Sonvico

The one floor house leans on a slope and gets horizontality through two hollow pillars
where secondary functions are placed.

Housing in Pregassona

The vertical structure composed by eight perimeter pillars and two central cores containing elevator
and stairs is repeated without variations on all four floors. The access floor remains empty and row.
On each of the remaining three floors the apartments are crossed by a diagonal space that emphasizes
their major dimension and guarantees the access to all rooms.

House in Pregassona

A repetitive and close vertical structure, based on two inferior lateral bays and a main central one,
allows reduced thicknesses for pillars (20x20 cm) and slabs (16 cm).
The roof structure repeats the intermediate slab structure, but it is bent along its central axis.

House in Mendrisio

The house, located just outside the Mendrisio historic centre where once began the fields,
has been absorbed over the years by the urban extension. However, its autonomy originally
characterized by the agricultural context has paradoxically increased.
After the creation of a built front along a recently realized road, the dwelling
has found itself protagonist of a well defined space between the historical town edge
and the new urban front.
(with Victoria Diaz Saravia, facade graphic consultant: Sidi Vanetti)

The project was commissioned by the Armenian National Social Housing Association.
It foresees the construction of 200 new housing units and the renovation of an existing building.
The site is an area originally intended by initiative of the Moldovan state to the construction
of residential blocks for homeless families after the 1988 Spitak earthquake.
The initiative suffered a sudden interruption following the Soviet disintegration,
leaving unfinished a series of terraces and a building. Our project originates from a careful
analysis of these terraces that properly reshaped become the supporting surfaces
of the new residential district. (Graphic consultant: Sidi Vanetti)

Mendrisio Academy of Architecture design studio spaces

In the project for the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture design studio spaces a new
platform supports the new volume, that together with the three existing buildings defines
a public space. Its four facades are made of cast on site monolithic reinforced concrete 12cm thick.
They are self-supporting and separated along the vertical edges.
Their autonomy, two-dimensionality and frontality express in a precise way the ultimate purpose of a facade:
to represent the building, similarly to a mask.

Bellinzona railway Station

The Bellinzona railway Station is located on a artificial platform.
On this platform, arrival surface to the city for those who arrive by train, the two historic
buildings emerge with autonomy once demolished the newest and of less value elements.
Our new building, a loggia, is a structure that covers the transitional space between travel
and destination, between train and city. The loggia is the city threshold. (Competition by invitation)